>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I have found myself in the following situation several times: I
>> created a wiki for some event or small project, everything works fine
>> and after the event or project was done - nobody have seen this wiki
>> for several months and does nothing on it. After several months
>> somebody needs the wiki once again and realizes that the wiki database
>> now have 3 Gb of text spam. Suppose that there is no back-up or
>> rollback option in a wiki hosting. So here is the question: how to
>>
>
>No backups, no way to roolback to a date? thats bad.
>You could start a wiki from scratch, copy manually from the old one
>whatever was good.  Maybe share this task with a few selected
>voluntaries.
>Start the new one without anonymous edits, a sexy theme and a huge
>campaign to attract people. "No like the old wiki!, this is actually
>good and maintaned!".
>Maybe the lack of maintenance contributed to the decay. I wonder if a
>wiki without enough contributors is worth existing, like a garden
>without anyone to cut the grass.

Certainly.  If for no other reason than the historical value.

We still keep all the Wikimania wikis around.

Thank you,
Derric Atzrott


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